Most scenes together: Lancaster Dodd & Freddie Quell (3)
I don't know what I told you but if you have work for me to do I can do it.
You seem so familiar to me.
Yeah. What do you do?
I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.
John More I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion...
No, this isn't a discussion, it's a grilling! There's nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?
John More I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational...
If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG ****? [beat] We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you.
John More Some of this sounds quite like hypnosis. Is it not?
This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber.
John More I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims.
Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said.
John More Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, Cause methods, can cure leukemia. According to your book...
Some forms of leukemia. In being able to access past lives we are able to treat illnesses that may have started back thousands, even trillions of years.
John More Trillions?
With a T, sir.
John More Earth is not understood to be more than a few billion years old.
Well even the smartest of our current scientists can be fooled, yes?
John More You can understand skepticism, can you not?
Yes, oh yes yes. For without it we'd be positives and no negatives, therefore zero charge. We must have it.
John More Good science by definition allows for more than one opinion, doesn't it?
Which is why our gathering of data is so far-reaching.
John More Otherwise you merely have the will of one man. Which is the basis of cult. Is it not?
'Tis, 'tis. And thankfully we are, all of us, working at breakneck speeds, in the unison towards capturing the mind's fatal flaws and correcting it back to its inherent state of perfect. While righting civilization and eliminating war and poverty and therefore the atomic threat.
Your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago. This battle has been with you from before you know. This is not you.
SHUT THE **** UP!
It's not you.
SHUT. THE ****. UP!
It's not you. You are asleep. Your spirit was free. Moving from body, to the next body. Free. Free for a moment. Then it was captured by an invader force, bent on turning you to the darkest way, you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive. We are in the middle of a battle that's a trillion years in the making and it's bigger than the both of us!
You're making this shit up! You make this shit up! You don't know what you're talking about!
I don't know what I'm talking about?
No, you don't.
I give you facts.
You don't give me facts!
They are not opinions.
What facts?! What facts?!
They are **** facts!
What facts?! What facts?!
**** you!
**** you! **** you!
**** you! **** you! Why don't you kick the bed some more?!
**** you!
**** you, you lazy ass piece of shit!
**** you! **** you! I'm not lazy!
I'm done! You're **** lazy!
Oh, you make shit up!
You're ****in' lazy!
Your **** family hates you! Your son hates you!
Oh, they do?!
Yeah! Your son hates you!
Who **** likes you except for me?!
Nobody!
Except for me!
No, you don't **** like me!
Who likes you except for me?!
Shut up!
I'm the only one who likes you.
**** you!
Yeah, **** you, too!
**** you!
Just me, Freddie.
Just you?!
I'm the only one that likes you. [pause] The only one. [pause] You're a **** drunk. And I'm done with you. ****...
Why aren't you with her?
I'm an idiot.
Why aren't you with the lovely girl?
I got no reason. I'm a fool.
Do you love Doris?
Yes.
Is she the love of your life?
Yes, sir.
Then why aren't you with her?
I don't know.
Yes you do. Tell me why you are not with her if you love her so much.
I told her I'd come back and I never went back and now I just... I gotta get back to her.
Why don't you go back?
I don't know.
Why don't you--
I DON'T KNOW!
Close your eyes.
I was on a ship that got 13 battle stars and won the war. What'd you do, dummy?
And this is where we are at. At the lowest level. To have to explain ourselves, for what? For what we do, we have to grovel? The only way to defend ourselves is to attack. If we don't do that we will lose every battle that we are engaged in. We will never dominate our environment the way we should unless we attack! And the city, city's just noise. I know the city. I know its rotten secrets, its filthy lies and secrets. They... invited us here and welcomed us. Only to throw us down. And kick us out. It's a grim joke.
Free winds and no tyranny for you, Freddie, sailor of the seas. You pay no rent, free to go where you please. Then go, go to that landless latitude and good luck. If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
If you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. And I will show you no mercy.
Man is not an animal. We are not a part of the animal kingdom. We sit far above that crown, perched as spirits, not beasts. I have unlocked and discovered a secret to living in these bodies that we hold.
Marriage, previous to The Cause, was awful. Awful. There's a cycle, like life. Birth, excitement, growth, decay. Death. Now... now. How about this? Here comes, a large dragon. Teeth! Blood dripping! Red eyes! What do I got? A lasso. And I whip it up, I wrap it around its neck, and I wrestle! Wrestle! Wrestle him to the ground. I snap up, I say "Sit, dragon!" Dragon sits. I say "Stay!", dragon stays. Now it's got a leash on. Take it for a walk. And that's what-where we're at with it now. It stays on command. Next we're gonna teach it to roll over and play dead.
My daughter's getting married, come join us! Leave your worries for awhile, they will still be there you get back, and your memories aren't invited.
This is something you do for a billion years or not at all. This isn't fashion.
What a horrible young man you are. This is acting like an animal. A dirty animal that eats Its own feces when hungry.
